Comment by blibble

3 years ago

glibc != Linux

a better analogy would be targeting the latest version of MSVCRT that happens to be installed on your system (instead of bundling it)

... also which mostly works but sometimes breaks

Windows has switched from app-redistributed MSVC runtimes to OS-distributed "universal CRT" since Windows 10 (2015). Unlike MSVCRT, uCRT is ABI-stable.

Nearly 99% of Linux software is linked to glibc.

What the f are you talking about?

This is not MSVCRT by a long shot.